"future Confederate general as a young man came to Quincy to live, and learn the law, from his uncle Alexander Johnson in the 1840s. Johnson was acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, and Pickett and Lincoln may have even met each other in Quincy. In 1860, Quincy founder and Lieutenant Governor John Wood inherited the governorship after William H. Bissell died while in office. At the time, he was overseeing business interests and the construction of his mansion. The Illinois legislature allowed him to stay in Quincy during his tenure, effectively making Quincy a ""second"" capitol for the state. His absence from"
"Quincy Jones (comedian) Quincy Jones (real name Quami Wallen; born June 2, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian who rose to fame when his dying wish of recording a comedy special was granted. Jones graduated from Middle College High School in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, in 2002. He was inspired to become a stand up comedian by watching Chris Rock. He began performing comedy in 2006, and six years later moved to Los Angeles to pursue comedy full-time. He estimates that in one year, he performed stand up over 1,000 times. In August 2015, Jones was diagnosed with"
"Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Metropolitan Boston and one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2014 was 93,397, making it the eighth largest city in the state. Known as the ""City of Presidents,"" Quincy is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents — John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams — as well as John Hancock, a President of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. First settled in 1625, Quincy was briefly part of Dorchester and Boston before"
"member of the United States House of Representatives. The city of Quincy, Massachusetts is named after him. John Quincy Colonel John Quincy (July 21, 1689 – July 13, 1767) was an American soldier, politician and member of the Quincy political family. His granddaughter Abigail Adams named her son, the future President John Quincy Adams, after him. The city of Quincy, Massachusetts is named after him. John Quincy was born in Boston to Daniel Quincy (1651–1690) and Anna Shepard (1663–1708). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Braintree, Massachusetts and established a homestead at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, in"
"A. Quincy Jones Archibald Quincy Jones (April 29, 1913 – August 3, 1979) was a Los Angeles-based architect and educator known for innovative buildings in the modernist style and for urban planning that pioneered the use of greenbelts and green design. Jones was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1913. He was raised in the city of Gardena in Southern California, but finished high school in Seattle. Afterwards he enrolled in the University of Washington program in architecture, where he was particularly influenced by faculty member Lionel Pries, and graduated with Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) in 1936. After marrying a"
"Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as ""Q"", is an American record producer, musician, composer, and film producer. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry, a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Raised in Chicago, Jones attended the Berklee College of Music. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before moving on to work in pop music and film scores. In 1969, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for"
"John Quincy Colonel John Quincy (July 21, 1689 – July 13, 1767) was an American soldier, politician and member of the Quincy political family. His granddaughter Abigail Adams named her son, the future President John Quincy Adams, after him. The city of Quincy, Massachusetts is named after him. John Quincy was born in Boston to Daniel Quincy (1651–1690) and Anna Shepard (1663–1708). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Braintree, Massachusetts and established a homestead at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, in what is present-day Quincy. Daniel died when John was one year old; his mother subsequently married the"
"Quincy, Ohio Quincy is a village in Logan County, Ohio, United States. The population was 706 at the 2010 census. Quincy was laid out in 1830, and named for John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Quincy is located at (40.297577, -83.970111). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. Except for a small section in the village's northeast corner, Quincy's boundaries form a square. Located in Quincy are a few small businesses. One of these businesses being a restaurant and bar called, The Pines. The Pines"
"as an average president. John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, to John and Abigail Adams (née Smith) in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts that is now Quincy. He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named. Young Adams was educated by private tutors – his cousin James Thaxter and his father's law clerk, Nathan Rice. He soon began to exhibit his literary skills, and in 1779 he initiated a diary which he kept until just before he died in 1848. Until the age of ten, Adams grew up on"
"John Quincy Adams (1848–1919) John Quincy Adams (June 16, 1848 – November 13, 1919) was an employee of the Milwaukee Road Railroad serving in the capacity as the general land and townsite agent in 1907, when Adams County, North Dakota was created, which is named after him. He was a distant relative of John Adams (the 2nd U.S. President) and John Quincy Adams (the 6th U.S. President). He was born in Troy, Vermont to Benjamin S. and Susan Smith (Pierce) Adams. He married Francis S. Smith in December 23, 1874; they had two children, the senior of them is Benjamin."
"John Quincy Adams Birthplace The John Quincy Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 141 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which the sixth United States President, John Quincy Adams, was born in 1767. The family lived in this home during the time John Adams helped found the United States with his work on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. His own birthplace is only away, on the same property. Both houses are National Historic Landmarks, and part of Adams National Historical Park, operated by the National Park Service. The house is"
"Quincy Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania Quincy Township is a township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,541 at the 2010 census, down from 5,846 at the 2000 census. The township has the name of John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States. The township is in southeastern Franklin County, bordered to the east by Adams County. The borough of Mont Alto is surrounded by the northern part of the township but is a separate municipality. The western half of the township is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, an agricultural area with elevations in the township"
"Quincy, Washington Quincy is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,750 at the 2010 census. The Missoula Floods had their outlet at Trinidad, close to Quincy. Glacial erratics carried from as far away as Montana can be found nearby. The area also has an abundance of rimrock. Quincy was founded as a railroad camp during construction of the Great Northern Railway in 1892, and was incorporated on March 27, 1907. It was named after Quincy, Illinois. The arrival of the water from the Grand Coulee Dam in 1952 changed the town. Quincy is located at"
"2014, he ruled that Pennsylvania's 1996 ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Jones was born in 1955 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and raised in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Blue Mountain High School. He graduated high school from Mercersburg Academy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College in 1977 and Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law in 1980. At that time, the school was unaffiliated with Pennsylvania State University, but is now known as Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law. After clerking for Guy A. Bowe, the president-county judge for Schuylkill County from 1980 to 1983, Jones"
"December 15, 2018) makes him the shortest-serving justice in U.S. history. Judge Johnson was born in Calvert County, Maryland, on November 4, 1732, to Thomas and Dorcas Sedgwick Johnson. His grandfather, also named Thomas, was a lawyer in London who had emigrated to Maryland sometime before 1700. He was the fourth of ten children, some of whom also had large families. His niece (daughter of his brother Joshua), Louisa Johnson, married John Quincy Adams. The family, including Thomas, were educated at home. As a young man he was attracted to the law, studied it, and was admitted to the Maryland"
"Quincy, Florida Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,972 at the 2010 census, up from 6,982 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Gadsden County. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Established in 1828, Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, and was named for John Quincy Adams. It is located northwest of Tallahassee, the state capital. Quincy was once heavily dependent upon agriculture, farming tomatoes, tobacco, mushrooms, soybeans and other crops for its employment base. In 1828, Governor William P. Duval introduced Cuban tobacco"
"becoming the north precinct of Braintree in 1640. In 1792, Quincy was split off from Braintree; the new town was named after Colonel John Quincy, maternal grandfather of Abigail Adams and after whom John Quincy Adams was also named. Quincy became a city in 1888. For more than a century, Quincy was home to a thriving granite industry; the city was also the site of the Granite Railway, the United States' first commercial railroad. Shipbuilding at the Fore River Shipyard was another key part of the city's economy. In the 20th century, both Howard Johnson's and Dunkin' Donuts were founded"
"$40 would be worth $6.4 million today, if all dividends had been reinvested. Quincy, Florida Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,972 at the 2010 census, up from 6,982 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Gadsden County. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Established in 1828, Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, and was named for John Quincy Adams. It is located northwest of Tallahassee, the state capital. Quincy was once heavily dependent upon agriculture, farming tomatoes, tobacco, mushrooms, soybeans and other crops"
"Quincy, California Quincy (formerly, Quinsy) is a census-designated place and the county seat of Plumas County, California. The population was 1,728 during the 2010 census, down from 1,879 during the 2000 United States Census. Quincy started as a Gold Rush town, associated with the former Elizabethtown, California. Started in 1852, Elizabethtown slowly faded. Development moved a mile away into the American Valley after settler James H. Bradley, who helped organize Plumas County, donated land there for the county seat. He laid out the town and named it after his farm in Illinois. (That had been named for John Quincy Adams"
"Quincy, Indiana Quincy is an unincorporated community in northeastern Taylor Township, Owen County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It lies just south of CR1150N, north of the town of Spencer, the county seat of Owen County. Its elevation is 738 feet (225 m), and it is located at (39.4536575, -86.7125050). Although Quincy is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 47456. Quincy had its start in the year 1853 with the building of the New Albany Railroad (a precursor to the Monon Railroad) through that territory. Many of the workers on this railroad had built"
"Quincy, Illinois Quincy ( ), known as Illinois's """"Gem City"","" is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. The 2010 census counted a population of 40,633 in the city itself, up from 40,366 in 2000. As of July 1, 2015, the Quincy Micro Area had an estimated population of 77,220. During the 19th century, Quincy was a thriving transportation center as riverboats and rail service linked the city to many destinations west and along the river. It was Illinois' second-largest city, surpassing Peoria in 1870. The city has several"
"the Kentucky Supreme Court) until his retirement in 1979. He died seven years later. Pleas Jones was born on a farm in Whitley County, Kentucky, on December 23, 1912. He was the son of Nathaniel ""Thanny"" and Rachel Lundy Jones. In the 1920s, the family moved to Harlan County, where Jones earned money by delivering ""The Cincinnati Post"" in the town of Bardo. The family returned to Whitley County, and after graduating from Williamsburg High School, Jones matriculated to Cumberland College (then a junior college, now University of the Cumberlands). He left Cumberland in 1934 and earned education degrees at"
"Bar. The book ""Fateful Harvest"" is written about Quincy, and the realities of corporations dumping toxic waste onto farmland by relabeling it and selling it as fertilizer. Quincy, Washington Quincy is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,750 at the 2010 census. The Missoula Floods had their outlet at Trinidad, close to Quincy. Glacial erratics carried from as far away as Montana can be found nearby. The area also has an abundance of rimrock. Quincy was founded as a railroad camp during construction of the Great Northern Railway in 1892, and was incorporated on March"
"of Independence in 1776 and was two-time Governor of Massachusetts, in 1775. Their first child, Lydia Henchman Hancock was born in 1776 and died ten months later. In 1787, their son, John George Washington Hancock, was ice skating on a pond in Milton, Massachusetts, and died as a result of drowning when he fell through the ice at age 8. In 1796, after Hancock's death in 1793, Quincy married Captain James Scott (1742–1809), who had been employed by Hancock as a captain in his trading ventures with England. They lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and had no children together. When"
"League World Series in 2003, 2005 and 2008. High school baseball and Babe Ruth League games are played at Adams Field. High school football is played at Veterans Memorial Field. http://www.mapc.org/icc Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Metropolitan Boston and one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2014 was 93,397, making it the eighth largest city in the state. Known as the ""City of Presidents,"" Quincy is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents — John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams — as well"
"two routes - the North route and the South route. Quincy Transit Lines route Route 4 stops near the city's Amtrak station at Wissman Lane/30th Street intersection. Quincy, Illinois Quincy ( ), known as Illinois's """"Gem City"","" is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. The 2010 census counted a population of 40,633 in the city itself, up from 40,366 in 2000. As of July 1, 2015, the Quincy Micro Area had an estimated population of 77,220. During the 19th century, Quincy was a thriving transportation center as riverboats"
"John Quincy Smith John Quincy Smith (November 5, 1824 – December 30, 1901) was a farmer, politician and legislator from Ohio, USA. John Q. Smith was born to Thomas Edward Smith (1783–1841) and Mary Kennedy Whitehill (1788–1849), natives of Virginia, on their Warren County, Ohio, farm near Waynesville. A voracious reader, his early schooling was limited because of his duties on the family farm, but his father believed in the advantages of an education, so that John Quincy was able to spend a short time at Miami University. In July 1852, Smith married Lydia Emeline Evans, a native of Warren"
"13,000 Quincy, Indiana Quincy is an unincorporated community in northeastern Taylor Township, Owen County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It lies just south of CR1150N, north of the town of Spencer, the county seat of Owen County. Its elevation is 738 feet (225 m), and it is located at (39.4536575, -86.7125050). Although Quincy is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 47456. Quincy had its start in the year 1853 with the building of the New Albany Railroad (a precursor to the Monon Railroad) through that territory. Many of the workers on this railroad had"
"general of the state militia during the period of the War of 1812 and claimed to know Andrew Jackson and Jackson's wife ""very well personally"" in a letter he wrote to a cousin in 1828. Calvin Jones was born on 2 April 1775 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer and Susannah (Blackmore) Jones. His father was a soldier in the American Revolution. He received his medical license in 1792, and then moved to Smithfield, North Carolina in 1795. Jones was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons twice from Johnston County, once in 1799 and again in 1802. He"
"Jehu Glancy Jones Jehu Glancy Jones (October 7, 1811 – March 24, 1878) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. J. Glancy Jones was born in Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Kenyon College, studied theology and was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 1835 and withdrew in 1841. He later studied law, was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1841 and commenced practice at Easton, Pennsylvania. He was district attorney for Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1849. He was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1848, 1849, and"
"which she co-wrote. Since 2016, she has starred as the lead title role in the TBS comedy series ""Angie Tribeca"". As a filmmaker, she directed the first episode of ""Hot Girls Wanted"", a series that focused on the sex industry. She was also executive producer of the series. In 2018, her documentary ""Quincy"", about her father, Quincy Jones, debuted on Netflix. Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, to actress Peggy Lipton and musician/record producer Quincy Jones. She is the younger sister of actress and model Kidada Jones, and half-sister to five siblings from their father's other relationships. Jones' father"
"Madison Jones Madison Percy Jones was a novelist born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1925. He published almost a dozen novels, and was considered ""one of the major figures of contemporary southern letters"". Madison Jones was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 21, 1925. He was the son of a Presbyterian businessman, and spent his early years living in suburban Nashville. When Jones was 14, his father purchased Sycamore Farm in hill country 25 miles north of the city. At 17, Jones dropped out of Vanderbilt University to become a farmer, moving to Sycamore Farm where he lived for a year"
"by the Dallas Cowboys in the 10th round of the 1987 NFL Draft, and played during the 1987 NFL strike as a replacement player. Jones was born in Lee County, VA, the second from the youngest of 13 children. After his family moved to Cleveland, TN he attended Bradley Central High School, where he was twice named All-State at defensive end. However, college recruiters had questions over his size (he weighed less than 180 pounds his senior year). For a whole summer, he would work all day on a farm in his hometown and then run six miles home at"